SECTION I.

PRELIMINARY MATTERS.

CHAPTER I.

How powerful, sagacious, and provident Nature is in adorning individual things with their own forces.

Just as that universal and all-shaping Nature of the World, diffused through all the members of the World, governs this totality of things with a certain order and rules it with immutable constancy, so it cannot be that it is not governed by a certain Divine law, Architectonic and conservative, which prudently administers all things by counsel and right reason, and protects them by its own providence. Which indeed of the Architectonic mind